On this, our 321st Evolutionary Lens livestream, we focus on AI, Iran, Trump, emergencies within the state of Washington, and tales from the Covid period. Anthropic, which makes Claude, introduced that they’re halting the discharge of their newest mannequin as a result of surprising capacities it has revealed. We focus on trade-offs, exploration, and sport principle as they pertain to bats and planes, cats and people, and LLMs. Then: did Trump make a genocidal menace towards Iran? And: what emergency within the state of Washington might presumably apply to school tuition, out-of-state militias, correct illustration of intercourse on authorities IDs, and responding to pandemics? Answer: all of the legislature has to do to make their concepts referendum-proof is declare that they’re responding to an emergency—they don’t even should say what the emergency is. Finally: our recollections of the Covid Era have begun to fade and morph, however it is crucial that we maintain them alive.
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Mentioned on this episode:
Bret on Trump on Iran: https://x.com/BretWeinstein/status/2041543705325347266
Glenn Greenwald on Lebanon: https://x.com/ggreenwald/status/2041906094818156646
Nguyen op-ed in Seattle Times: https://www.seattletimes.com/opinion/im-not-a-millionaire-i-dont-think-we-need-a-millionaires-tax/
Nguyen on X: https://x.com/VietQNguyen
Nguyen’s WA tracker: https://picsterola.github.io/wa-ec-tracker/#/
Covid Era Stories: https://naturalselections.substack.com/s/covid-era-stories
The Symptoms I Carry: https://naturalselections.substack.com/p/the-symptoms-i-carry
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Timestamps:
00:00:00 Introduction to Global Stories
00:02:41 Sponsor: Xlear
00:06:39 Sponsor: Caraway
00:10:25 Sponsor: Puori
00:15:04 AI Alarm: Mythos & Zero-Day Risk
00:20:49 Anthropic: Truth or Marketing?
00:24:42 Hidden Toggles & AI Limits
00:28:50 Game Theory is Breaking Out
00:37:42 AI & Phases of Innovation
00:49:03 Trump, Iran & Nuclear Risk
00:57:03 Strait of Hormuz Impact
01:07:28 WA Emergency Bills
01:17:22 Identity, Mandates & Power
01:29:33 COVID Stories & Memory
01:40:01 The Relationship COVID Broke
01:46:47 Rebuilding Trust
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